Review: Undersung rock hero Carl Perkins gets the spotlight in new biography
Jeff Apter weaves together interviews, newspaper reports, and background from a memoir that Perkins wrote. His love for music ...
The rockers that inspired Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck
Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck played a huge part in developing the standard rock guitarist, but they had their influences before they started playing.
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Review: Jeff Apter surveys the life of a modest rock star in ‘Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly’
"CARL PERKINS: THE KING OF ROCKABILLY" by Jeff Apter (Citadel, 240 pages, $29). Carl Perkins is an unexpected choice of subject for the prolific musician biographer Jeff Apter, who lays out the ...
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"By listening to a wide range of styles – blues, jazz, country, rockabilly and skiffle – he was able to develop his own individual sound and identity": 4 ways to play ...
George Harrison was the archetypal lead guitarist. Like all great players ... Big Bill Broonzy, Django Reinhardt, Slim Whitman, Chet Atkins, Carl Perkins and Lonnie Donegan were all inspiration ...
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On The Record: ‘That’ll Flat…Git It!’ Series Unearths More Vintage Rockabilly
The latest additions to the anthology are Vol. 48: Rockabilly & Rock n Roll from the Vaults of Starday Records and Vol. 49: ...